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Leap of Faith tier available

Sorry for this random post, but I know many of you wanted to be notified if a Leap of Faith tier were to become available.

It is now - First come, first serve.

edit: spot is now taken.

Dev Diary, February 25th, 2022

Progress

Finally, I've been able to sit down and work in Daz uninterrupted, and I've been having a lot of fun doing so. The week started off a bit weird though, with my son testing positive for Covid on Monday, but he's already recovering and my own daily tests keep showing negative.

Story renders are now up to 493, and animation frames at 6,356, which is a decent increas...

Illustrated Dev Diary, February 18th, 2022

First of all, I have to give a huge thank you to everyone for helping Leap of Faith get the great Steam reception it did. It has been beyond what I could have dreamed of, and I know that because many of you bought the game on Steam early, made it spend all of last week on the 'New and Popular'-list, including topping it last weekend. That alone gave 10,000,000 page impressions and helped show the game to a new audience.

It has been a wild week, with people from all over the world has co...

Dev Diary, February 18th, 2022

First of all, I have to give a huge thank you to everyone for helping Leap of Faith get the great Steam reception it did. It has been beyond what I could have dreamed of, and I know that because many of you bought the game on Steam early, made it spend all of last week on the 'New and Popular'-list, including topping it last weekend. That alone gave 10,000,000 page impressions and helped show the game to a new audience.

It has been a wild week, with people from all over the world has co...

Dev Diary, February 11th, 2022

I've been working on story renders this week. In addition to that, I wanted to bring in a bit more fun into the chapter, so I've added some scenes which are more of a fun nature and built the locations/backdrop for them.

Numbers now stand at 338 story renders and 4,748 animation frames. It's a bit less than I'd hoped by now, but it's not a big worry. There are good weeks and less good weeks, and that's just the way it is.

One of the reasons for it is that I discovered an error in ...

Leap of Faith - Steam Giveaways

The Leap of Faith Steam Key and Cece figurine giveaways are now open. Head over to my Discord server and look for the steam-giveaway channel to participate.

By entering the giveaways, you agree to the following:

Cece figurine giveaway:

• Winners have to submit their full shipping address when contacted.
• Winners are responsible for any extra expenses added by their countrys laws (im...
  2022-02-04 14:04:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Illustrated Dev Diary, February 4th, 2022

Yet another week with good progress. I've mostly been working on animations, along with some filler renders, which reflects in the numbers.

I'm now at 276 story renders and 4,748 animation frames.

Next week I'll be focusing on story renders, which will be a nice break to the animations. Doing still renders pushes the story forward at a faster pace and long periods of animations generally feels you're at a standstill. But there's an end for every girl (and then some), so you will a...

Dev Diary, February 4th, 2022

Yet another week with good progress. I've mostly been working on animations, along with some filler renders, which reflects in the numbers.

I'm now at 276 story renders and 4,748 animation frames.

Next week I'll be focusing on story renders, which will be a nice break to the animations. Doing still renders pushes the story forward at a faster pace and long periods of animations generally feels you're at a standstill. But there's an end for every girl (and then some), so you will a...

Dev Diary, January 28th, 2022.

Open post this week and next week, as I can't hide any news about giveaways behind a paywall.

Progress
Nothing too exciting to report this week. I'm working my way through the render marathon that is chapter 8, so there's a good increase on both animation and story renders.

Numbers are now at 240 story renders and 2,554 animated frames.

I've finished up the first of the main endings, with all the variations connected to it, and I'm now working on girl num...

Illustrated Dev Diary, January 21th, 2022

Finally, I was able to get a full week of work where I turned off all distractions.

I've been working on the first of the girls endings and progress is going well. I've focused on animations mostly, but also story renders to get things stitched together.

For numbers, we're at 163 story renders and 1,288 animated frames.

I'd like to give you a little rundown of how chapter 8 is developed, so you get some idea of the workload remaining.

About 60% of this last chapter is ...

Dev Diary, January 21th, 2022

Finally, I was able to get a full week of work where I turned off all distractions.

I've been working on the first of the girls endings and progress is going well. I've focused on animations mostly, but also story renders to get things stitched together.

For numbers, we're at 163 story renders and 1,288 animated frames.

I'd like to give you a little rundown of how chapter 8 is developed, so you get some idea of the workload remaining.

About 60% of this last chapter is ...

Illustrated Dev Diary, January 14th, 2022

This week there's been quite a few distractions. I had originally made my Steam release as a seperate version to the Patreon release, but decided to rewrite it so both version now are essentially the same. That means I will save a lot of time later on with the release of chapter 8, and during the development of it. Unfortunately, it also meant I had to re-script and re-test all of the achievements (with the help of my testers), which took a decent chunk of last weekend.

I've also done a...

Dev Diary, January 14th, 2022

This week there's been quite a few distractions. I had originally made my Steam release as a seperate version to the Patreon release, but decided to rewrite it so both version now are essentially the same. That means I will save a lot of time later on with the release of chapter 8, and during the development of it. Unfortunately, it also meant I had to re-script and re-test all of the achievements (with the help of my testers), which took a decent chunk of last weekend.

I've also done a...

Dev Diary, January 7th, 2022

Welcome to the new people and happy new year to everyone.

These last few weeks since the chapter 7 release has been stressful, overwhelming, but an extremely nice experience, and I feel I should thank you for sticking by and supporting.

Between Christmas and New Year, I included all reported typos and prepared the Steam release of the game. The store page is now up, and the Steam build is being tested as we speak. The release date of Leap of Faith on Steam is February 11th. If you...

Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates! Thank you so much for the kind feedback, support and for downloading and playing my game.

We surpassed both 1,000 and 1,100 patreons these last two days, and I'm really out of words for what to say. I'll be back before New Year with a few more renders for you all.

I hope you all have a naughty holiday, and stay safe out there.

// Drifty

Leap of Faith - Chapter 7, is now Live!

Changelog:

Added 1,440 story renders.
12,758 animated frames.
8,455 lines of dialogue/script
28 new songs
Ported the game to Renpy 7.4.11

$5 tier or above - Download post
If you were a $1 supporter for October/November/December you will get the download links in a private message. If you haven't already, please message me.

$1 tier - Expired (January 5th - 19th only!)

Thank yo...

Leap of Faith - Chapter 7, Download links!

Thank you for playing and your support!

Changelog:
Added 1,440 story renders.
12,758 animated frames.
8,455 lines of dialogue/script
Ported the game to Renpy 7.4.11, which should be a huge improvement in performance

Leap of Faith - Chapter 7 - Full Game versions:

2021-12-22 14:42:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 7 - Pre release information

With just a few days to go, here's the standard pre release information.

Remember that the surefire way to jump in and play the next release from where you left off with your current saves is to make sure you've saved in an unmodded version of Leap of Faith.

I haven't introduced any malicious scripting which ruins your gameplay if you've modded your game (I mean, who would do such a thing...), but in case your modded saves do not work I can't provide bug-testing and fixes. It's ju...

Illustrated Dev Diary, December 10th, 2021

These are hectic weeks before the release and Christmas, but I've been pushing hard all week, and I'm en route for the release.

I wont give any render numbers from now until release, but I can say that Leap of Faith has rounded another milestone, surpassed the 10k render mark which is todays preview image above (and 60k animation frames) for all chapters. Hopefully your choices won't lead you to see that image in the game though.

Instead of the normal dev diary I thought I'd give ...

Dev Diary, December 10th, 2021

These are hectic weeks before the release and Christmas, but I've been pushing hard all week, and I'm en route for the release.

I wont give any render numbers from now until release, but I can say that Leap of Faith has rounded another milestone, surpassed the 10k render mark (and 60k animation frames) for all chapters.

Instead of the normal dev diary I thought I'd give you a little insight about how the pre release days are.

I try to give the testers 7 days of testing, due ...

Dev Diary, December 3rd, 2021

Shared $1 and $5 post this week due to the importance of the screenshot.

It's a very weird feeling having worked on the story for almost two years, knowing that at some point I would have to use the words that make up the story's title, knowing they will tie everything together.

So as I watched that scene, I'm not going to lie, it was an overwhelming feeling, and I ended up going outside for a bit just to soak everything in. The scene is very powerful, but heartwarming. Hopefully ...

Leap of Faith - Chapter 7 - Release schedule

I thought I'd give a post to clarify when you can expect to download Chapter 7 of Leap of Faith based on your current support tier.

I've tried to do this as fair as possible, especially with my long time supporters in mind.

Patreon release:

22nd of December - For $10 or higher tiers
(or if you have been a $5 supporter the last three months (oct, nov, dec), you will get a private message with the download link on the 22nd).

29nd of December - For $5 ...

Illustrated Dev Diary, November 26th, 2021

Hey guys. Hope you enjoyed the Chapter 7 release date video. Well, it was mostly animations you've seen already, but there should be some new ones in there. And with that song in the background and it's lyrics, you should have a good idea by now what mood we're in during this chapter.

I told you last dev diary that I was going to do scripting this week, but ended up doing most everything else instead. But progress is still progress, so there's a decent boost in renders in addition to ge...